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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Horse Sense. In Chicago's outskirts a plow horse named Admiral, wearied of the heat, broke the traces and charged down the street to a tavern, lined up against the regulars, plumped his nose on the bar and was rewarded with a free beer. His master, tired of searching for him, dropped into the bar for a quick one, spied the horse; they had another beer together and went back to their plowing...
...than Palestine, almost as many Italians (1,095,000) as Rome. It has 412,000 Poles, 57,000 Czechs, 54,000 Norwegians, 53,000 Greeks. Half a million Negroes are jammed into New York, alongside almost a quarter-million Puerto Ricans. Mayor O'Dwyer can never be free of the fear of a bloody riot in Harlem. He has other enormous responsibilities. He is the commander of a sizable army-19,000 policemen, 11,000 firemen, 120,000 other municipal employees...
...farming." Organic matter is an important component of soils, says Dr. Kellogg, "but the advocates of the organic matter doctrine go very far. They insist that ... the usual chemical fertilizers are downright poisonous to soils; that the liberal use of compost gives special qualities to plants-they will be free of insects and diseases; and that animals, or even people, will be ever so much more healthy by eating plants grown 'the organic way.' " Most of this is silly, says Dr. Kellogg politely. Organic compost is no cureall, and chemical fertilizers no "poison...
...Seven Laws for education: i) give he children opportunities for selfdiscovery; ) make them meet with triumph and defeat; ) give them the opportunity of self-effacement n a common cause; 4) provide periods of si-snce; 5) train the imagination; 6) make games mportant but not predominant; 7) free the ons of the wealthy and powerful from the ener-ating sense of privilege...
...drained of the color that made the Little Flower an endearing and irritating one-man kaleidoscope, it discloses a passion for public service. Some of his famed fractiousness comes through here, and so does his standard of political morality. He was willing to pick up flophouse votes with free coffee and doughnuts, but not willing to accept Hearst's offer to get him nominated for New York Supreme Court judge...